Sonic Boom

Led Zeppelin fans have been expressing the same mournful regret time and again. They wish they’d been there to see the very beginning.

To be in the crowd at the first Zeppelin concert. To have no idea what they were about to hear, to be in that state of blissful ignorance before the music started and the world changed. To be in that precious moment in the time before Zeppelin existed, and when it exploded into being, to live in that moment.

What if you could know? What if you could go back in time to that very first concert?

With Sonic Boom: The Impact of Led Zeppelin, Volume I – Break and Enter, you’ll be closer than anyone has ever been before.

This book takes you back in time with the people who were there that first night when Led Zeppelin played. Audience members who listened to those first concerts before Zeppelin was Zeppelin. Musicians who shared the bill with them. The guys who promoted. The DJs who first played their songs.

This isn’t the same old hash of Led Zeppelin trivia. Forget the bean baths and mud sharks. These are the stories any die-hard Zeppelin fan or popular music scholar would kill to hear.

For example, you’ve probably heard of the Gonzaga Gig, a concert that no one could prove had ever taken place. Well, I found proof! I even tracked down and interviewed Don Fitzpatrick, the man who promoted that concert when he was a student there.

You can download that chapter free right now. Prove to yourself this is a book full of stories you’ve never heard before about the band you love. First-hand accounts from people who were there, who know what the venues smelled like, how Jimmy, Robert, John Paul and Bonzo were dressed, who remember what everyone drank that night.

Yes, they really did perform as The New Yardbirds. Find out where, and why, and who saw it.

This book fills in some missing gaps in the band’s history. It’s about getting so close to those phenomenal beginning gigs that you can almost hear the sounds and the crowd, the accents on the lips of people, and most important of all – Led Zeppelin.

It’s not just a book about that, though. It’s not just a book about how Zeppelin began.

It’s a book about why they lasted.

I spent my university career analyzing why Zeppelin’s music has withstood the passage of time and grown even more impactful and profound as years passed by. In this book, you’ll get a first glimpse of that, along with insights from university popular music history experts.

You’ll hear things in Zeppelin’s music that you’ve never heard before.

I know I’m talking to fans, researchers and music students as devoted as myself. I know you’ve listened to the records a thousand times.

I promise you that when you listen again after you read this book, you’ll understand more about Led Zeppelin’s music than ever before. You’ll be that much closer to understanding why this band matters so much to you and to so many others.

You won’t just know that Zeppelin rocks. You’ll know why.

If you doubt my own praises of my work (and I can’t blame you), know that Led Zeppelin’s archivist once called my work expert. These other Zeppelin fans, researchers, and music critics added their voices to his:

“Sonic Boom will surely become a classic in the Led Zeppelin literature.” – Dario Nannini, rock journalist and Led Zeppelin fan

“As an exercise in solid research work, Sonic Boom is as good as it gets and essential reading for Zep fans keen to find out how the seeds of the Zeppelin legacy were sown.” – Dave Lewis, published Led Zeppelin author and editor of Tight But Loose magazine

“The curators here at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just LOVED Sonic Boom. May we PLEASE keep it in our department library?” – M. Rutledge, Assistant Curator, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

“One of the most thorough and engaging books ever written about the band.” – Gerard Sparaco, reviewer at www.collectorsmusicreviews.com

“A truly superb edition. There is a lot of thought, passion and professionalism with this first book. For fans like myself, Sonic Boom is a real treat.” – Graeme Hutchinson, Chair Action for Brazil’s Children’s Trust (a charity established by Jimena Page and Led Zeppelin founder/guitarist, Jimmy Page),

There’s no other book like this. No one else has ever gone to the trouble of tracking down the people who were there in the early days of Zeppelin. I don’t know why no one has ever done it, but I’m proud to have been the first.

Let me tell you a story. It’s Led Zeppelin’s first gig. There’s a young man in the back of the room with a volunteer for the Gladsaxe Teen Club where the band debuted. The house photographer was there too, a 17-year-old kid who was to capture that gig on film.

The young man took Led Zeppelin on the band’s first Scandinavian tour.

The volunteer became his wife.

The teenager grew up to become an award-winning rock photographer.

They all gave me their first-hand accounts of that debut concert for this book. The photographer even shared a few photos from his exclusive collection from the early years of Led Zeppelin – photos that had rarely been seen before in print and that are featured throughout the book.

The book is worth its price for just those unusual pictures alone.

This is the first edition of Sonic Boom, a masterwork of eyewitness accounts and music analysis of Led Zeppelin like no other. If you’re a Zeppelin fan, you can’t afford to be missing this piece in your collection. If you’re a Zeppelin scholar, you can’t afford to be missing this ground-breaking research.

These books are already selling for two and three times their original price among collectors – and we’re not finished selling our first edition volumes yet.

How do you know that only collectors who have this book have access to these interviews and photos?

Because we printed it ourselves. In the great underground tradition of Led Zeppelin, we published it out of our own pocket through one of the best printers in Canada. We’re not paying a distributor, and we only have a very limited number of copies.

What you get:

Collectible first edition with gold foil-embossed cover and high-quality printing
Eyewitness accounts of Zeppelin’s first gig and their first North American Tour of 1968/’69
Proof that Zeppelin really did perform as The New Yardbirds
Hundreds of pics. Some have never before appeared in print
736 pages of fascinating information about the legendary band
Musical analysis of the band’s debut album that you’ve never read before

Unless you already have all of that in your collection – and you know you don’t – you need this book.

The cost? $59.95 plus shipping and handling. You’ll receive your book in the mint condition collectors expect, and we’ll make sure it arrives safe and sound.

Not sure it’s worth the cost? For a short time, we’re sweetening the pot with an extra exclusive:

A free copy of our ebook, J.J. Jackson Remembers Led Zeppelin: The Music and the Guys Who Made It, a value of $47.

Yours for free when you get your first-edition copy of this prize for any Zeppelin fan’s collection.

Peter Grant and the band credited the late J.J. Jackson, a DJ in Boston when Zeppelin first played at the Boston Tea Party in January 1969, with much of their initial success in America. J.J. told me his stories of the guys who were his friends – and your music idols. Be among the only people on the planet to read these six EXCLUSIVE interviews.

See the Boston Tea Party through the eyes of J.J. You’ll hear about the venue, the audience, and J.J.’s comparison of what sounded different when you were there in person than if you listen to live recordings of those same concerts.

J.J. talks about how he felt when Robert Plant dedicated Since I’ve Been Loving You to him at Led Zeppelin’s Inglewood concert in June of 1973.
Find out why J.J. hid from John Bonham at the party following Bonzo’s Birthday Bash gig.
See Jimmy Page checking out his wah-wah pedal on stage at the Carousel Theatre on August 21, 1969. It’s just one of the pics J.J. shares from his private collection in this book.

Steve “The Lemon” Sauer of www.ledzeppelinnews.com complimented my interview technique designed to help J.J. go back in time and describe what the band was like back then.

“Reddon makes a brilliant move seldom seem elsewhere: He provides his interview subject with some live audio recordings of Led Zeppelin shows Jackson personally attended, prompting further recollections. There is no other book on the market like this one. It lets you experience the firsthand accounts of someone who not only had those concert memories but also had unparalleled access to the band in its formative days. It is a joy to read!”

This book contains information and interviews that are completely exclusive and unavailable anywhere else.

And it’s yours with the purchase of Sonic Boom, which offers you even more of the exclusive information that only a scant handful of Led Zeppelin connoisseurs in the world have.

These are two books for the true collector. The ones who really love Zep. The ones who want to know how it all happened, and why it still resonates today. The ones who wish like mad they could have been there. Maybe even for some who were there!

We can’t turn back time. But we can send you back through the ages with eyewitness accounts of the people who were there. It’s the closest thing to a Zeppelin time machine you’ll ever find.

We know any collector and dedicated fan of Led Zeppelin will immediately recognize the value of these two books. However, if you don’t think Sonic Boom is a brilliant, unprecedented look into the band’s formative years and a perfect addition to your Zeppelin collection, you can return it for 100% of your money back.

The J.J. Jackson ebook is yours to keep as my gift to a fellow fan.

That’s a year-long guarantee, so there’s no risk at all. If you don’t love it, we’ll take it back, no hassles.

You do risk waiting too long and letting other collectors and fans snap up these first editions. It’s a limited run, funded completely from our own pocket, and this is the only chance you’ll ever have to get a first edition.

Unless, of course, you want to wait a few years and see what the prices are like online. I warn you that they’re already selling for several times our asking price, though. I doubt very much that they’re going to be easy to purchase in a few years.

Secure yours today. Get the last piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding where Led Zeppelin comes from and what the legendary band’s music is really all about.

Sonic Boom is a huge volume. It’s chock full of information and eyewitness interviews. And it’ll leave you dazed.

But no longer confused.